Embroidery-chart



l. B. NELSON.

EMBROIDERY CHART. APPLlcATIoN FILED APH. 5, 1920.

1,360,779. Patented Nov. 30, 1920.

UNITED @STATES PATENT OFFICE.

rom' B. NELSON, or s'r. Louis, mssotmr.

EMBROIDERY-CHART.

Specification ot Letters Patent.

Patented N 0V. 30, 1920.

Application led April 5, 1920. Serial N0. 371,266.

. To all lwhom it may concern:

posite forms being produced by the combination of the said lines. To assist in proportions, similitudes, equalizations, and other characteristics, a scale is marked on some or all of the said lines.

Some of the lines in this pattern or model are .straight and some curved and some are irregular curves. Any geometrical or nongeometrical form can be embodied in the same.

In use a part or some parts of one of the basic lines will be used, or, in some cases, the whole of one of the basic forms of this chart or pattern will be used, and in general a combinationwill thus be formed in which such basic lines or parts thereof are grouped into symmetrical design combinations.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of this'guide or form of chart or model;

Fig. 2 gives a slight illustration of how the same can be and is used,whereby a longer or shorter part of one of the basic forms can be used more than once in juxtaposition and thereby produce a composite ei'ect, viz., a design not appearing in the original pattern; and e Fig. 3 illustrates how part of a line can be used to produce part of a desi and other basiclines or forms found in t e pattern that forms the subject-matter of this invention to make a composite design.

The variety and beauty of the designs for embroidery and other purposes that can be produced from this basic pattern are limited only by the imagination andskill of the designer. The scales thereon may be according to any standard or arbitrary system of measurement.

The body l is composed of any'suitable comparatively inflexible material, such, for instance, as Celluloid, aluminum, or other material that will present a good edge against which the pencil, chalk, crayon, or the like, of the designer can be guided.

The circles 2, 3,4, and 5 of different sizes are adapted for a wide variety of uses in desi ning, including the use of either a part `or t e whole of one or more of the same.

The same remarks apply to the pear or egg shaped pattern 6 and the trianglef? and the irregular forms 8, 9, and 10. It will be understood that circles 2, 3, 4, and 5, and the patterns 6, 7, 9, and 10 .are all cut-outs yin body 1.

The edges 1l and 12 are parallel to each' other and the edge 13 at a right angle thereto. All of the said edges and the irregular curve 8, and certain or all of the cut-out patterns are preferably provided with scales thereon.

The pattern 7 enables the drawing of various straight line and angular patterns. The edges 11, 12, and 13 do-the same on a larger scale. The various curved lines in the patterns enable the desi ner to trace or draw designs containing vo ute, tortuous, or plane curves, or to produce designs of flowers containing .petals and other ioral characteristics.

The use of this basic pattern saves the purchase of a separate or new pattern for each job of embroidery or the like, and assists or enables the designer to make her own or his own pattern and to do so according to taste. It is to be understood that my improved designing device may be advantageously used for planning either geometrical or non-geometrical figures, that is, the device may be used for drawing circles, rectangles, triangles, and other conventional forms, and in addition, can also be employed for forming irregular, non-conventional lines or shapes, or what I term non-geometrical figures.

Fig. 2 shows the use of one of the tips of form 9 to produce a three-line desi n. The same part of the tip is used for t e outer and middle lines of the design in Fi 2, but only part thereof for the innermost inc,

The reference numbers in Fig. 2 indicate 1 the arts of the said tip used.

T e reference numbers in Fig. 3 show the derivation from Fig. 1 of the lines in Fi 3.

The body 1 is preferably formed of s eet material and it is to be understood that the cut-outs or the other patterns therein orv thereon are given only by way of illustration, and that the same may be varied without departing from the s irit of this invention or the scope of the ollowing claim.

I claim:

A designing device `of the character dcscribed, comprising a sheet of stable material having one end portion thereof formed with straight edges, the end edge being at a right angle to the side edges, and

ieomo of such sheet having a plurality o geometrical and non-geometrical figures cut therefrom whereby to form strai ht and curved guide edges, certain of sald' geometrical iigures being circular while others of said geometrical figures are merel' curved in outline, said last two groups o geometrical figures being varied' in size.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature,

IOLA B. NELSON. 

